Will the military take over response to a flu pandemic?

The 1968 Avian Influenza (AI) pandemic was the last the world has faced. It killed 34,000 Americans. The 1918 AI pandemic killed ½ million in the U.S. and 200 million worldwide. We are now in phase 3/6 of a pandemic alert with limited human to human transmission. Since 2003 there have been 277 H5N1 cases and 166 deaths of human AI worldwide, each increasing each year. How prepared is the public health community on the ground for another pandemic? The U.S. Government since Hurricane Katrina states that the President will declare Marshall Law when a pandemic begins. In December, 2005 the chief physician of the U.S. Armed Forces confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security, not the Department of Health & Human Services will be in charge of a response to an AI pandemic. He also said that the armed forces had stockpiled enough doses of anti-virals for each member of the military. At the same time the head of the CDC declared she was against the stockpiling of anti-virals either in a central location or decentralized. Billions in federal funds have been spent in planning a response to bioterrorism. Are the plans developed for bioterrorism applicable to a pandemic? What is the relationship between AI pandemic preparation and the public health infrastructure at the federal, state and local level? How are federal dollars being spent to prepare for AI? What are the differences among the national plans of the U.S., European and other countries and the WHO global plans?